Washington acknowledges expansion of poverty in Afghanistan.
The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan said that over the past 20 years, huge expenditures have been made in Afghanistan, but the result has been that one in three Afghans is on the brink of starvation.
The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says that according to the World Food Program, by September 2021, approximately 14 million people, or one in three people in Afghanistan, are on the brink of starvation, a figure that has risen sharply in recent months. .
SIGAR has stated that the country has provided $ 146 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the past 20 years, but that drought, food shortages and the Covid-19 crisis have exacerbated the humanitarian situation in the country.
According to the report, about $ 89 billion was spent on training and equipping the Afghan security forces, but now all of that is gone, as well as other goals such as helping women and girls and establishing the rule of law, all under threat after the US withdrawal. Directly located Taliban.
“We owe it to all those who have served in Afghanistan,” the Special Inspector General said in the report.
Cigarette states that since it all came to an abrupt end, there is little to show American taxpayers why the United States’s 20-year mission to Afghanistan.
SIGAR said the signs showed that the seeds of Afghanistan’s disintegration had been sown well, President Ashraf Ghani had fled, the Taliban had taken control of Kabul, and the 20-year US war in Afghanistan had ended in less than four months.
